March 2017

03/30/2017

“Ten simple rules for responsible big data research,” published in PLoS Computational Biology, provides practical guidance for big data researchers on the complexities of privacy protections, preventing re-identification of research subjects, and recognizing the difference between publicly available data and user consent for third-party research. This paper represents the work of the Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, funded by the National Science Foundation grant # IIS-1413864.